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More quotes from The Week's Wit and Wisdom section...

• "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
• "Never explain- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
• "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure- which is: Try to please everybody." - Herbert Bayard Swope
• "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." - Paul Harvey
• "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." - Soren Kierkegaard
• "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
• "Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down." - John Wayne
• "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy
• "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire
• "Experience is not what happens to you.  It is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
• "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry Truman
• "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but no too good and not quite all the time." - George Orwell
• "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." - Alexander Smith
• "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
• "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike." - JK Rowling
• "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus

... from The Week this week (11/17/06) is as follows:

• An Australian firm launched the Wondercup, a line of underwear that claims to do for male genitalia what the Wonderbra does for women's breasts.  "It basically lifts, separates, and extends," said creator Sean Ashby.
• A Florida man was ambushed and shot in the chest by two assailants as he took out the trash.  The bullet was sopped by the two small Bibles has was carrying in his pocket.
• A survey of office workers found that the use of management jargon by bosses lowers employee morale.  Workers said they were particularly depressed by the terms "getting one's ducks in a row" and "thinking outside the box."
• A retired New Jersey police officer is suing a man whose life he saved on the grounds that their encounter left him depressed.  Two years ago, Sgt. Ron Nametko, 38, calmly persuaded a suicidal fellow office, Patrick O'Conner, 40, not to kill himself during a 45-minute standoff.  Nametko now claims that the incident has left him with depression and frequent nightmares, for which he wants financial compensation.  "You would think a fellow officer would be sympathetic for what Pat has gone through," said Alan Zagas, a lawyer for O'Conner.
• A Minnesota high school is selling advertising time during a student production of It's a Wonderful Life.  Mounds View High School's theatrical rendering of the 1946 James Stewart classic, about a man discovering the true meaning of Christmas, will pause periodically for students to read ads from local businesses.  The cost of a spot is $75, and businesses can also rent signage space on the stage set's backdrop.
• Per CNN/Opinion Research Corp: 41% of parents say they would want their child to grow up to be president. 58% say they would not.
• "Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent." - Christopher Isherwood
• "Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business." - Dave Barry
• "Reality is a crutch for people who can't deal with drugs." - Robin Williams
• "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." - Jules Renard
• Elephants are highly intelligent animals that, like apes and dolphins, can recognize their own reflection in a mirror, as researchers at the Bronx Zoo have found.
• You should be washing your hands vigorously for 30-45 seconds, which is roughly equivalent to singing "Row, row, row your boat" twice.
• 35% of employers that research prospective employees on the web have rejected a candidate due to contact found as a result.  Red flags include omitted jobs on resumes to photos of drunken candidates at bars.
• Per CNNmoney.com: Depository institutions ordered $122 million in $2 notes last year, more than double the number orders between 1991 and 2000.  Among the groups that have embraced the note is the exotic dancing industry: Strip clubs hand out $2 bills as change, and they end in dancers' garters.  "It doubles their tip money," said Angelina Spencer of the Association of Club Executives.

Here's some recent quotes from The Week's Wit and Wisdom section...

* "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close to success they were before the gave up." - Thomas Edison
* "I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me, and I didn't have the heart to let him down." - Abraham Lincoln
* "If they only tool you have is a hammer, ever problem looks like a nail." - Abraham Maslow (psychologist)

• "Wear a smile and you have friends; wear a scowl and you have wrinkles." - George Eliot
• "It is the neature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him." - John Steinbeck
• "Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading." - Sarah Orne Jewett
• "Man's loneliness is but his fear of life." - Eugene O'Neill

(The Week is my favorite magazine.  This is from it's Wit and Wisdom section, which reprints the quotes featured in various media throughout the last week.)